Mum: Yoga instructor

Doria has worked in many different fields but since receiving her master's degree in social work she is a yoga therapist

MADONNA has nothing on 61-year-old Doria Ragland, who is the ultimate mother of reinvention.

Doria, who is descended from slaves, was 20 and working as an assistant make-up artist at ABC television when she met Meghan’s dad, Hollywood lighting director Thomas Markle in 1980.

They got married in 1979 but divorced in 1987 on grounds of irreconcilable differences, after which Doria took on various jobs to make ends meet.

Reportedly she was even an air stewardess for a time – so at least she will have something in common with former trolley dolly Carole Middleton when it comes to chatting over the champagne and canapes at future Royal gatherings.

In 2002, as Meghan was starting her acting career, Doria found herself in a financial fix and filed for bankruptcy, with reported credit card debts of £42,900 and just £813 to her name.

At the time, she was self-employed saleswoman for a business called Distant Treasures but Doria, who has a master’s degree in social work, has since reinvented herself as a yoga therapist.

Half-nephew: Debt recovery

Meghan's nephew Tyler Dooley said the star used to babysit him as a child

IF Meghan and Harry hope to start a family, she’s clearly had enough practice of looking after youngsters.

Her nephew Tyler Dooley, whose dad is her half-brother Thomas Jr, has revealed she would often babysit him as a child. He said: “She was just like any other kid growing up. She was our aunt and she was our family.

“Meghan would babysit us monthly and she would always take us to the park and the duck pond.”

Tyler, 27, who works for a debt recovery firm, added: “We have completely different jobs in different towns and we still keep in touch because she is a quality person.”

He also hit out at his Aunt Samantha: “Meghan was stung by the things my aunt said about her. It left her shocked and concerned. She could not believe it.”

Wedding invite chance: 3/5

Half-sis: Writer

IT seems there is no love lost between one-time actress Samantha Grant, 52, and her younger, more successful half-sister. She once labelled Meghan a “social climber” and blasted: “The Royal Family would be appalled by what she’s done to her own family.”

Mum-of-three Samantha, who has multiple sclerosis and is confined to a wheelchair, also tweeted:

“Disability should not be an embarrassment to my sister. She has hidden that I’m in a wheelchair. That is not right.”

Sam was said to be writing an explosive tell-all book about Meghan, The Diary of Princess Pushy’s Sister, but its focus is now on “my beautiful baby sister possibly becoming the first biracial princess or duchess in royal history”.

Samantha, whose dad is Meghan’s dad, is twice divorced and she and her now ex second husband jointly filed for bankruptcy in 2003.

Uncle: Bishop

Fred Markle with Meghans grandmother Doris Markle, her father Thomas and Meghan

LOVEBIRDS Harry and Meghan won’t have to look too far for someone to perform a wedding blessing – her dad’s brother is a bishop who owns his own church.

Frederick Markle, 75, goes by the name Bishop Dismas and is the leader of the Eastern Orthodox Catholic Church in the US. But the ramshackle chapel in Sanford, Florida, is no Westminster Abbey.

And it’s unlikely he’d make it to such a grand occasion – because he’s a recluse.

A friend said of him: “He is basically a real friendly guy but he doesn’t go for new ideas. He lives like a hermit. He’s got a cellphone but he can’t figure out how to switch it on. As for emails and computers, that’s all Greek to him.”

Fred is said to be estranged from his wife Theresa, a teacher. They have two sons, Nick, 37, and David, 34.

When asked what he thought of his cousin’s impending marriage to Prince Harry, tattooed Nick said: “I don’t talk about my family.”